The Crime Of Claudius Ptolemy
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- 1977
- Topics
- Greek astronomy, ancient astronomy
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- Language
- English
In Newton's view, Ptolemy was "the most successful fraud in the history of science". Newton shows that Ptolemy predominantly obtained the astronomical results described in his work The Almagest by computation, and not by the direct observations that Ptolemy described.
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- 0801819903
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- Year
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